They’re also tearing down the Exxon across the street and building a QuickChek (that’s a win obviously) but there’s another QC two miles down the road and a different one less than ten minutes away. And we’re talking about a sparsely populated area. It’s getting insane

TreasonWeasel wrote:They’re also tearing down the Exxon across the street and building a QuickChek (that’s a win obviously) but there’s another QC two miles down the road and a different one less than ten minutes away. And we’re talking about a sparsely populated area. It’s getting insane

At one point a few years ago, I passed 3 Dunkin Donuts locations on the 4 mile highway drive from my house to the bank.

For whatever reason, there’s also two 7-11’s that are one traffic light away from each other on that same drive.

Which one of you guys lives in Chicago? I think I’m gonna do a baseball road trip in mid August and hit both parks in Chicago. Any hotel/location recommendations for south and north side? Two different hotels is fine, we’re gonna check out White Sox one day, drive up to Milwaukee the next day and then back for Cubs the following day.

Doesn’t need to be fancy. Just looking for a clean bed to sleep in ideally in an area where I’m not one of the thousand people that gets shot in that city on a daily basis. That said, closer to each stadium the better.

As I understand it that cave is a tourist attraction but is normally closed this time of year. For whatever reason it was still open so the team went on a normal tourist type trip and got pushed deeper into the cave because of a ton of rain that caused flooding. I loosely followed this on Reddit and saw that explanation so who knows if it is true or not but it does make sense.

vonbonds wrote:As I understand it that cave is a tourist attraction but is normally closed this time of year. For whatever reason it was still open so the team went on a normal tourist type trip and got pushed deeper into the cave because of a ton of rain that caused flooding. I loosely followed this on Reddit and saw that explanation so who knows if it is true or not but it does make sense.

You can correct me if I’m wrong but I’m guessing people normally hike to around where the diver’s camp was set up? Anything further looks like it would’ve taken brass balls (one of the openings they, and subsequently the divers had to maneuver through was 1’ x 2’) and they must’ve had to do it or be killed.

just reading about the conditions the divers and obviously the kids had to swim/crawl through gave me anxiety and I wouldn’t call myself overly claustrophobic or anything. Pitch blackness and murky water even if you have a light. Nightmare stuff

I hadn’t really until yesterday. If you’re interested just click on the Thai cave hashtag, whatever it is, on twitter and look at the pictures section. People made illustrations depicting how fucking insane it really was. I had no idea until I looked

They were like 2.5 km inside this cave with several flooded sections between them and the entrance and numerous chokepoints that most people probably couldn’t fit through

vonbonds wrote:As I understand it that cave is a tourist attraction but is normally closed this time of year. For whatever reason it was still open so the team went on a normal tourist type trip and got pushed deeper into the cave because of a ton of rain that caused flooding. I loosely followed this on Reddit and saw that explanation so who knows if it is true or not but it does make sense.

You can correct me if I’m wrong but I’m guessing people normally hike to around where the diver’s camp was set up? Anything further looks like it would’ve taken brass balls (one of the openings they, and subsequently the divers had to maneuver through was 1’ x 2’) and they must’ve had to do it or be killed.

just reading about the conditions the divers and obviously the kids had to swim/crawl through gave me anxiety and I wouldn’t call myself overly claustrophobic or anything. Pitch blackness and murky water even if you have a light. Nightmare stuff

This is where I'm way over my ski tips as i only started following this a few days ago. I don't think how they exited the cave is how they came in. I believe the track they took in wasn't an option due to the monsoon rains.

da god wrote:Which one of you guys lives in Chicago? I think I’m gonna do a baseball road trip in mid August and hit both parks in Chicago. Any hotel/location recommendations for south and north side? Two different hotels is fine, we’re gonna check out White Sox one day, drive up to Milwaukee the next day and then back for Cubs the following day.

Doesn’t need to be fancy. Just looking for a clean bed to sleep in ideally in an area where I’m not one of the thousand people that gets shot in that city on a daily basis. That said, closer to each stadium the better.

Go to the Gage steakhouse. Right across from mellinium park. Expensive but worth it

I don't really know what happened. This is such a strange feeling for me. Until the Aussie last year, he was losing in the QF, SF rounds regularly, then after the Aussie, he won every GS he played in before Wimbledon this year. I'm so butt hurt lmao.